Acknowledgements

True to the spirit of the network society, this book stems from a collaboration between a diverse web of individuals and organizations. Above all, we are grateful to the Digital Futures partners for making this research possible through their generous contributions of time, money and expertise.

Particular thanks to the members of the project steering group: John Adams (DETR); Terry Beal (South West RDA); Tom Bentley (Demos); Frans Berkhout (SPRU); Colin Bluck (Smart South West); Gary Boswell (Nationwide Building Society); David Boyle (New Economics Foundation); Ian Christie (Local Futures Group); Tim Cradock (WH Smith); Malcolm Eames (SPRU); Alan George (Unilever); Katrina Giles (AOL); Hark Gill (Royal Bank of Scotland); Andy Gillespie (University of Newcastle); Colin Gomm (BP); Nick Green (Town and Country Planning Association); Vernice Halligan (Ericsson); Mary Heathcote (Foresight); Mark Hepworth (Local Futures Group); Julia Hertin (SPRU); Anna Hilton (Fishburn Hedges); Charlotte Hines (MORI); Peter Hopkinson (UK CEED/University of Bradford); Mike Hughes (BT); Peter James (UK CEED/University of Bradford); Alan Jelly (Unilever); Rachel Jones (Fishburn Hedges); Ben Jupp (Demos); Charles Leadbeater; Martin LeJeune (Fishburn Hedges); Alan Knight (Kingfisher); Alex MacGillivray (New Economics Foundation); Giles Mackey (BP); Peter Madden (DETR); John Magill (MORI); Paul Miller (Forum for the Future); George Martin (Forum for the Future); Simon Marvin (University of Salford); Russell Moss (Foresight); Kate Murphy (Foresight); Chris O'Connor (Ericsson); Paul Pritchard (Royal and Sun Alliance); Jonathon Porritt (Forum for the Future); Lisa Ramshaw (Amazon.co.uk); Douglas Robinson (DTI); James Sergeant (Cabinet Office); Christine Smedley (Amazon.co.uk); Charles Tucker (Post Office); Chris Tuppen (BT); Jon Tutcher (Sun Microsystems); April Vesey (DTI); Andrew Ward (Nationwide); Rebecca Willis (Green Alliance); Ian Wood (BT).

Thanks also to everyone at Earthscan, particularly Jonathan Sinclair Wilson, Akan Leander, Frances MacDermott and Nim Moorthy. Finally, many thanks to Rowan Davies for her skilful and sensitive editing.

The authors of each chapter would like to add the following acknowledgments.

Chapter 1

Grateful thanks to the many people who contributed time and ideas to this work, particularly James Wilsdon, Peter Madden, Paul Jefferiss, Tom Bentley, Keith Collins, Ian Christie, Stephen Tindale, Robin Murray, Roger Levett, Paul Ekins, Evan Davis, Andy Arnold, Chris Tuppen, John Adams, Jon Tutcher, Douglas Robinson and Nick Butler. Many thanks, too, to BP and the Imagination Gallery, for their support.

Chapter 2

We would like to acknowledge the support and assistance of our partners in the Digital Futures project, and especially to the Post Office and Royal and SunAlliance for hosting two theme seminars. We would like to extend particular thanks to Perry Walker (New Economics Foundation), Andy Bush (Sun Microsystems) and Martin Wright (Green Futures magazine) for their contributions to these seminars.

Chapter 3

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this chapter, in particular Rebecca Willis (Green Alliance), Jonathon Porritt, Paul Miller and Halima Khan (Forum), Ian Christie and Kate Oakley (LFG), Alex MacGillivray (NEF), Christina Smedley and Lisa Ramshaw (Amazon.co.uk), Katrina Giles (AOL) Chris Godwin (IBM), Martin LeJeune and Rachel Jones (Fishburn Hedges), and to all those who attended the dot-com ethics seminar held in October 2000, which was generously hosted by Amazon.co.uk. Thanks also to all those companies and individuals who participated in the survey.

Chapter 4

We are grateful to a number of people whose ideas helped shape this chapter. Anne George undertook some of the research at Demos. Jon Tutcher at Sun Microsystems hosted a seminar to discuss the findings. Other useful contributions came from Katrina Giles (AOL), Gary Boswell (Nationwide), Daniel Miller (UCL), Damien Tambini (IPPR), Ed Mayo (New Economics Foundation), Anne Power (LSE), Gabriel Chanon (Community Development Foundation), Ken Warpole (Comedia), Cathy Pharaoh (Charities Aid Foundation), Fiona Halton (Pilotlight), Penelope Harvey (University of Manchester), Lizzie Jackson (BBC), Sonia Liff (University of Warwick) and David Wilcox.

Chapter 5

We would like to thank everyone who contributed to this chapter, and especially Ian Wood (BT), Wingham Rowan (GEMS), Hark Gill (NatWest), June Bowman (ONS), Katrina Giles (AOL), James Wilsdon (Forum), Adrian Harvey (Fabian Society), Chris O'Connor (Ericsson), James Sargeant (Cabinet Office), Charles Tucker and Annette Hutchinson (The Post Office), Stephen Leman (DfEE), Alan Wyle (National Association of Village Shops), Bernie Ward (NEF), Kevin Carey (HumanITy), Felicity Ussher (silicon.com), Danny Miller (UCL), Sonia Liff (Warwick) and David Lascelles (Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation).

Chapter 6

Thanks to all those who took part in interviews and the theme workshop, and particular thanks to South-West RDA for organizing and hosting the e-regions workshop.

Chapter 7

Thanks to Deirdre Hopkinson and Sue James for their encouragement and support, members of the Digital Futures consortium for information and feedback, and Charles Tucker of The Post Office for organizing a seminar to discuss the first draft.

Chapter 8

We are grateful to a number of people whose ideas helped to shape this chapter: Joe Ravetz (University of Manchester); Gary Boswell, (Nationwide Building Society); Tim Craddock, Muriel Stirling and Rick Latham (WH Smith); Graham Bell and Gideon Amos (successive directors of the TCPA); members of the TCPA Policy Council; participants in a TCPA seminar in October 2000; and last but no means least, James Wilsdon (Forum for the Future)